Storm Buckets Now Hosts Websites

Storm Buckets can now serve static websites - same protocol, same file, same place. Object storage and static hosting have always been the same problem; here's what that looks like in practice.

The buckets you use for storage now host websites - same credentials, same operator, same Canadian hardware. Your site lives where your storage already lives.

Storage and hosting are the same problem

A static site is a directory of files served at a URL. So is an object storage bucket. HTTP doesn't care which it hits - same protocol, same file, same bytes. The reason most providers ship them as separate products is mostly historical: object storage came up from backend infrastructure, static hosting came up from CDN edge networks. Two industries, one protocol.

Buckets collapses the distinction. The bucket that holds your project backups is the same bucket that serves your project's marketing site. Storage and hosting aren't separate features - they're the same feature seen from two different angles.

What a bucket can be

Your personal blog. Your portfolio. Your company's marketing site. The documentation for an open source project. A resume page at a custom domain. A landing page for something you're launching. A single index.html for a side project you haven't named yet.

If it's a directory of files served at a URL, it can live in a bucket.

Bring whatever generates HTML

Hugo, Jekyll, Astro, Eleventy, Zola, Pelican, anything that puts files in a directory. Or skip the generator entirely - an index.html and a 404.html is a complete site. How you build it, how it deploys, what your CSS looks like - that's your call. Storm Buckets serves what you upload. We don't ship a framework, we don't run a build pipeline, we don't have opinions about your tooling.

How to try it

Static site hosting is in alpha on Storm Buckets. Join the alpha →

The setup walk-through — pointing a custom domain at a bucket, configuring deploys, handling 404s - lives in the docs: Hosting websites on Storm Buckets →